That information is in the Unicode standard. If you have any questions after
reading that, then you can post them.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: Chookij Vanatham <chookij.vanatham@eng.sun.com>
To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 01:02 PM
Subject: Re: 5 Hebrew Consonances Shaping
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Would you give me information about ZWJ and ZWNJ ?
> I don't know about it at all.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Chookij V.
>
> >
> > Chookij> These ten codepoints, you can input from the keyboard as
well.
> > Chookij> Here are my questions.
> >
> > Chookij> 1. Whenever I hit the keyboard to input these 5 codepoints
> > Chookij> (U+05DB, U+05DE, U+05E0, U+05E4, U+05E6) at the end of the
> > words,
> > Chookij> should I always change these 5 codepoints to the other
> > respective
> > Chookij> codepoints which are the final forms (U+05DA, U+05DD,
U+05DF,
> > Chookij> U+05E3, U+05E5) of these 5 consonances ?
> >
> > Chookij> 2. What if I read the hebrew text files which have these 5
> > Chookij> codepoints (U+05DB, U+05DE, U+05E0, U+05E4, U+05E6) at the
end
> > of
> > Chookij> the words, should I always change them to the final forms ?
> >
> > In our rendering system, I always replace the final forms (U+05DA,
U+05DD,
> > U+05DF, U+05E3, U+05E5) with their nominal forms when loading Hebrew
text and
> > do context analysis to determine which shape should be used at text
drawing
> > time. The user can of course change this behavior using the ZWJ and
ZWNJ.
> > The Arabic script is handled the same way.
> >
> > This helped make various operations a lot less error-prone.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- > > Mark Leisher > > Computing Research Lab Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony. > > New Mexico State University -- Lou Reed > > Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL > > Las Cruces, NM 88003 > > >
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